The Harbinger
November 6, 2006
Hiram Volleyball Wins NCAC Tournament
Kozempa Named Tournament MVP
The No. 15 nationally-ranked and second-seeded Hiram
College volleyball team defeated
No. 11 and top-seeded Wittenberg University
in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament Championship game hosted by Wittenberg
this past Saturday. In addition, senior middle hitter Michelle Kozempa was
named tournament most valuable player.
With the win, the Terriers improve to 32-3 overall and win
their first-ever NCAC Tournament Championship and an automatic bid to the 2006
NCAA Division III National Tournament. The Tigers fall to 31-7 overall and will
await a possible at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Leading the way offensively was Kozempa who had a team-high
13 kills. Senior outside hitter Katie Moore had 12 kills and senior right side
player Jen Hlebovy added 11. Junior setter Megan Taylor led the team in set
assists with 44.
Defensively, senior libero Jill Howard led five Terrier
players in double figures in digs with 24. Hlebovy recorded 18 digs, sophomore
defensive specialist/outside hitter Leah Schaffer had 15 and Taylor
added 14. In addition to Kozempa being named tournament MVP, Kozempa, Schaffer,
and Howard were all named to the All-Tournament Team.
Hiram will take on Mount St. Joseph College in the NCAA
Tournament which begins November 9 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
VERB Ballets, Wednesday in Hayden
On Wednesday,
November 8, 2006, acclaimed contemporary dance troupe VERB Ballets
will perform in Hayden Auditorium. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. A dessert reception will follow.
VERB Ballets will stage Luis, a contemporary ballet based
on a short story by Richard Selzer, M.D. The story is set in a city in Brazil
and explores the intersecting lives of a wealthy radiologist and a young man
who survives by scavenging at the city dump. As the narrative unfolds, the
characters become entwined in a morality play that resonates with universal
themes.
Award-winning playwright Eric Coble and choreographer Mark
Tomasic of VERB Ballets collaborated on the adaptation of the story to dance.
All members of the Hiram College community are invited to read
the original story and attend an open discussion on Monday, November 6,
2006, at 6:30 p.m. in the Alumni Heritage Room. Copies of Luis are on reserve in the Hiram College
Library.
Luis
- Performed by: VERB Ballets
- Choreography: Mark Tomasic
- Narrative adaptation: Eric Coble
- Music: Uakti with Philip Glass
- Costumes: Edgar Day Stanton
Dancers
- Luis: Jason Ignacio
- Dr. Cherubini: Mark Tomasic
- Joana: Erin Conway
- With: Marcella Alvarez, Danielle Brickman, Katie Gnagy,
Sydney Ignacio, Catherine Meredith, and Anna Roberts
Luis was commissioned by the Hiram
College Center
for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities; Tuskegee
University National
Center for Bioethics in Research
and Health Care; and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Department of Bioethics for the national Global Health Care Justice symposium
hosted at Hiram College
in June 2006.
Tuesday: Top North Korea analyst to speak at Hiram College
Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the University
of Chicago and one of the world’s
top experts on North Korea,
will speak at Hiram College
on Tuesday, November 7, at 4 p.m. in
the Pritchard Room of the library. His lecture is titled “Decoupled from
History: North Korea
in the ‘Axis of Evil.’” Cumings’ talk will outline North
Korea’s historical relationship with the United
States, clarify the nuclear motivations of
Kim Jong Il, and analyze the effectiveness of the Bush administration efforts
to change North Korean behavior.
When the CIA was forecasting a North Korean collapse in the late 1990s, Cumings
counseled otherwise. His unrivaled command of historical documents and his
pungent writing style have won him acclaim as well as
controversy.
Cumings grew up in Hiram, attended Denison
University, joined the Peace Corps
in the mid-1960s, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia
University. Cumings has extensive
experience traveling in both North and South
Korea.
His books include Origins of the Korean
War (two volumes), Korea’s Place in
the Sun, and North Korea: Another
Country. His essays on Korea
appear in major newspapers and periodicals around the world, including the New
York Times and Le Monde. Cumings’ presentation is sponsored by the Hiram
College history department.
Friends of the Library book sale this week
The Friends of the Hiram College Library cordially invite
you to stop in to check out the selection of books during the November book
sale, beginning Monday, November 6, through Friday, November 10. Come
gather a cornucopia of titles -- and the cost is still only 50 cents per
book. The sale will be held in the lobby of the Library between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
daily. Sale racks are
replenished throughout the day. We hope to see you there.
Wednesday: Professor Gwen Fischer presents Library Forum
Dr. Gwen Fischer will present the next Library Forum on
Wednesday, November 8, at 4:15 p.m.
in the Pritchard Room of the Library. Dr. Fischer will speak on “Lions, and
Children, and Medical School,
Oh My!: Internships and Research Opportunities in Tanzania.”
Refreshments will be served. Please join us!
Thursday: Lunch and Learn @ the Library
The next Lunch and Learn @ the Library program is set for
Thursday, November 9, at 12:30 p.m.
in the Library Instruction Room on the third floor of the library. Come learn
the art of successful grant seeking from Kay Molkentin, Hiram
College’s Director of Corporate and
Foundation Relations. There is a lot more to it than just writing a proposal.
Learn what necessary features - from needs to budget - make up a well-developed program or project. Learn how to identify appropriate funding sources and finally how to prepare a winning proposal. The presentation will also include the proposal process at Hiram, as well as the services provided by the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Seating and pizza for lunch is limited, so please reserve your seat (and a slice or two of pizza) by contacting Terri Foy (x5354 or foytm@hiram.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 8.
Thursday: Rotaract inauguration dinner for officers
The Rotaract of Hiram College will have its
inauguration dinner for its officers on Thursday, November 9, 2006, at 6:30 pm in the Alumni Heritage room. Jay Dzurilla, the
governor of Rotary District 6630 (Northeast Ohio), will swear in the newly
elected officials: Chelsea Arnold, president; Nicole Trainer, vice president;
Michelle Morgan, secretary; Vernique Callwood, treasurer; Sara Husain, director
international service; Will Dahlberg, director club services; Isabelle Tuma,
director professional development, and Andrea Wohleber, director of finance.
Mike Johns, a Rotary International Board of Directors Elect-member (there are 17 such people in the world), will attend the ceremonies and briefly speak about his Nigerian water project.
One of the international services projects adopted by the Rotaract of Hiram College is “Children of the Dump,” a project in Nicaragua involving local villages surround a large city dump. This project has close ties to a newly adopted fall 2007 3-week course titled, “Children of the Dump, a Study in Overcoming Poverty through Grass-Roots Entrepreneurship,”which will travel to Nicaragua to work with these children and their communities. For more information, go to www.childrenofthedumps.org.
Concert Band presents fall concert
The Hiram College Concert Band will present its fall concert
on Friday, November 10, in Hayden Auditorium at 7:30
p.m.
Featured on the program will be works by J.S. Bach, Norman
Dello Joio, John Philip Sousa, Jaromir Weinberger, and Leonard Bernstein.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Wanser’s article explores facets of stone
Jeff Wanser, coordinator of government documents for the
Hiram College Library, recently published an article in the Encyclopedia of
American Folklife (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), called “Stone.
In email, Jeff writes, “The article outlines the traditional uses of stone in America as a building material for vernacular architecture, walls, and other purposes as well as discussing the quarrying of stone and the occupational life of stone cutters. It’s one of 350 articles in the encyclopedia, covering material culture, religion, music, ethnic groups, and many other aspects of traditional and contemporary folk culture in America.”
What’s that (Terrier) Sound?
Terrier Sound, Hiram
College’s new marching band, will
March the Campus on Thursday, November 9, beginning at about 12:15 p.m. With final exams soon to be held for the
12-week, the band wants send everyone to their studies on a high (musical) note
This performance can also be considered a salute to the College’s volleyball
team and its NCAC Tournament and automatic berth in the NCAA Division III
Tournament.
Terrier Sound leader Joe Gaither says the marching band will gather at the Frohring Music Building, follow a route that takes it through Martin Commons, to the Kennedy Center, and, finally, to Hinsdale for an Arch march-through. There could be additions to and deviations from the route – these bands-people are wild and crazy – so be on the lookout for them wherever you are on campus.
The band will be marching to Sousa Classics, a compilation of El Capitan, The Liberty Bell, and Stars and Stripes Forever. Terrier Sound also will be play Final Countdown from the movie Rocky, and Hooray For Hiram, the College’s new fight song.
Don’t miss this performance!
Watch the Leonid Meteor Shower at the Field Station
If the skies are clear on Saturday, November 18, bring your
chairs to the James H. Barrow Field Station, sit down, and look up. That
evening should be a great night for viewing the Leonid Meteor Shower.
This celestial event may be one of the last good viewings of
the Leonids for many years to come. On the evening of the 18th, Earth will be
in close proximity to the 1932 dust trail left by parent comet Tempel-Tuttle. The
meteor show should be best just before midnight.
In addition to viewing the meteors, a telescope will be on
site to view planets and other distant objects in the night sky. Light
refreshments and a bonfire will be available. Restroom facilities and a warm-up
room also will be accessible.
This event is sponsored by the Stephens Memorial Observatory
and the James H. Barrow Field Station. Viewing will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 1 a.m.
This event is open to the public. The only thing that will cancel the party is
cloudy skies!
For more information, go to www.stephensobservatory.org.
GAIA Gender-Studies Reading Group
Join Assistant Professor of English Kirsten Parkinson for
the second GAIA Gender-Studies Reading Group. The group will meet on Thursday,
November 16, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Bonney Castle Parlor.
The topic for this second meeting is “Gender and Film.” The
article for discussion is Judith Mayne’s “Feminist Film Theory and Criticism,”
(Signs, 11.1 [1985]: 81-100). The article can be accessed here: http://www.jstor.org/view/00979740/sp040042/04x2183y/0
Following is Professor Parkinson’s synopsis of the
discussion:
Early feminist film theory posits the idea of the male
spectator and the female object: men both within films and as cinema’s implied
audience have control over the act of looking and watching, and women are
constructed as the passive objects of that gaze. Feminist film theory also argues that
traditional cinema gives the power of storytelling to men, further
disempowering women. Judith Mayne’s
article provides an overview of these early arguments; she also offers an
analysis of the role of contradiction in cinema and in feminist film criticism.
Our discussion will look at the main points of Mayne’s text and consider to
what extent these early arguments still hold water. Are the male spectator and male gaze still the
norm in movieland? Are there contemporary
films that offer alternative narrative structures? Is there room for the female spectator and
female gaze in today’s cinema?
Additional reading on this topic:
Feminist Film Theory: A Reader, edited by Sue Thornham, which includes both of these important essays in the field:
- Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Screen 16.3 (1975): 6-18.
- Doane, Mary Ann. “Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator.” Screen 23.3-4 (1982): 74-88.
Welcome to the Hiram College Community!!
- Christina Furda – On-Call Nurse, Health Center
- Steve Jones – Vice President for Business and Finance/Chief Financial Officer
- Aline Koptis – On-Call Nurse, Health Center
This Week at Hiram
Monday, November 6
- Friends of the Library Book Sale
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Library lobby
-
Luis discussion group
6:30 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room
Tuesday, November 7
- Friends of the Library Book Sale
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Library lobby
- “Decoupled from History: North
Korea in the Axis of Evil,” by Bruce Cumings
4 p.m., Pritchard Room of the Library
Wednesday, November 8
- Friends of the Library Book Sale
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Library lobby
- Library Forum: Professor Gwen Fischer presents, “Lions, and
Children, and Medical School,
Oh My!: Internships and Research Opportunities in Tanzania”
4:15 p.m., Pritchard Room of the Library
- VERB Ballets performance
8 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
Thursday, November 9
- Friends of the Library Book Sale
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Library lobby
- Lunch and Learn: Kay Molkentin presents, “The Art of
Successful Grant Seeking”
12:30 p.m., Library Instruction Room
- Volleyball @ NCAA Regional Tournament
TBA
- Rotaract Dinner
6:30 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room
Friday, November 10
- Friends of the Library Book Sale
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Library lobby
- Swimming & Diving v. Mt.
Union
6 p.m., Alumni Memorial Pool
- Concert Band Fall Concert
7:30 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
Saturday, November 11
- Cross Country @ NCAA Great Lakes Regional @ Hanover College
11 a.m., Hanover, Indiana
- Football v. Wittenberg
1 p.m., Henry Field
- Swimming & Diving v. Bethany
College
1 p.m., Alumni Memorial Pool
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